Randa Maroufi. ‘Barbès’
9 — 21 November 2021
— From the collection of FRAC Bretagne
- Artists
- Randa Maroufi
- Venue
- Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
- Price
- Free admission
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Through a recurring collaboration with the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya- MNAC, LOOP Barcelona presents Randa Maroufi’s ‘Les Intruses’ from the collection of FRAC Bretagne.
Part of the series Les Intruses [The Intruders], Barbès is a video that questions the decentring of archetypal representations that we produce around culture. A group of young women – «the intruders» – occupies the public space for the time of the mise en scène. They take on the same gestures, the same postures, as those of the men in such places: they play cards or watch a football match without minding the passage of time. They occupy terraces and expose themselves in the strangeness of a public space of exclusion – that of gender.
Randa Maroufi is a graduate of the National Institute of Fine Arts, Tetouan, Morocco (2010) and the School of Fine Arts, Angers, France (2013). She also earned a diploma from Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France (2015). Randa Maroufi has been Artist Member of Academy of France in Madrid at Casa de Velázquez in 2017 – 2018. Belonging to the generation that grew up in an era dominated by image, she collects them with as much eagerness as suspicion, and ceaselessly questions their veracity. She prefers to put her ambiguous fictions in the service of reality, and the field of her experimentation encompasses the occupation of public space and gender issues, of which she highlights the founding mechanisms. Her recent group exhibitions include: Museo de Reina Sofía, Spain (2021); New Museum, NY (2020); MA Museum, Quebec (2019); Biennale de Dakar, Senegal (2018); Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (2018), Sharjah Biennial, Lebanon (2017); Videonale Bonn, Germany (2017); International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2016); African.